Thursday, June 2, 2022

Radiohead: Top 100 Songs

Radiohead

Top 100 Songs

This experimental-rock group formed in Oxford, England, in 1989. Since the beginning, the group has maintained the same lineup of singer Thom Yorke, brothers Jonny Greenwood (guitar) and Colin Greenwood (bass), with Ed O’Brien on guitar and Phil Selway on drums.

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Top 100 Songs


Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists (see sources at bottom of page) as well as compilations and live albums by the featured act. Also includes are songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. The two-letter codes after songs indicate which albums and EPs the songs appear on.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Creep (1992) PH, B1
2. Paranoid Android (1997) OK, B1

DMDB Top 2%:

3. Karma Police (1997) OK, B1
4. Fake Plastic Trees (1995) TB, B1

DMDB Top 5%:

5. High and Dry (1995) TB, B1

DMDB Top 10%:

6. Just (1995) TB, B1

DMDB Top 20%:

7. Idioteque (2000) KA, MW, B1
8. Street Spirit (Fade Out) (1995) TB, B1
9. There There (2003) HT, B1
10. No Surprises (1997) OK, B1
11. Pyramid Song (2001) AM, B1
12. Lotus Flower (2011) KL

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

13. Everything in Its Right Place (2000) KA, MW, B1
14. Let Down (1997) OK, B2
15. My Iron Lung (1994) IL, TB, B1
16. Reckoner (2007) IR
17. Jigsaw Falling into Place (2007) IR
18. Burn the Witch (2016) MP
19. Lucky (1995) OK, B1
20. Optimistic (2000) KA, B1

21. Knives Out (2001) AM, B2
22. Nude (2007) IR
23. The Bends (1995) TB, B1
24. Exit Music (For a Film) (1997) OK, B2
25. How to Disappear Completely (2000) KA, B2
26. 2 + 2 = 5 (2003) HT, CL, B1
27. True Love Waits (2001) MW, MP, B2
28. Planet Telex (1995) TB, B2
29. Go to Sleep (2003) HT, B2
30. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (2007) IR

31. Anyone Can Play Guitar (1993) PH, B2
32. Talk Show Host B2
33. The National Anthem (2000) KA, MW, B2
34. I Might Be Wrong (2001) AM, MW, B2
35. House of Cards (2007) IR
36. Stop Whispering (1993) PH, IT
37. Bodysnatchers (2007) IR
38. Airbag (1997) OK, AH, B2
39. All I Need (2007) IR
40. Codex (2011) KL

41. Life in a Glasshouse (2001) AM
42. Where I End and You Begin (2003) HT
43. Myxomatosis (2003) HT, CL
44. Videotape (2007) IR
45. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2) (1997) AH
46. The Daily Mail (single, 2011)
47. Pop Is Dead (single, 1993)
48. You and Whose Army? (2001) AM
49. Daydreaming (2016) MP
50. Bloom (2011) KL

51. Kid A (2000) KA
52. 15 Step (2007) IR
53. Like Spinning Plates (2001) AM, MW
54. Fog (2001) CL
55. Rabbit in Your Headlights (Uncle with Thom Yorke, 1998)
56. Pearly (1997) AH
57. A Wolf at the Door (2003) HT
58. Scatterbrain (2003) HT, CL
59. Morning Bell (2001) KA, MW
60. You (1992) PH, B2

61. Blow Out (1993) PH
62. Separator (2011) KL
63. Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000) KA
64. Spectre (single, 2006)
65. A Reminder (1997) AH
66. Thinking About You (1992) PH, IT
67. Killer Cars (1993) IT
68. I Will (2003) HT, CL
69. Black Star (1995) TB
70. Climbing Up the Walls (1997) OK

71. Banana Co. (1993) IT
72. Sail to the Moon (2003) HT
73. Cuttooth (B-side of “Knives Out,” 2001)
74. Palo Alto (1998) AH
75. The Tourist (1997) OK
76. Lurgee (1992) PH
77. Subterranean Homesick Alien (1997) OK
78. Bones (1995) TB
79. (Nice Dream) (1995) TB
80. A Punchup at a Wedding (2003) HT

81. Gagging Order (2003) CL
82. Staircase (single, 2011)
83. Little by Little (2011) KL
84. Last Flowers to the Hospital (2007) IR2
85. Morning Bell/Amnesiac (2001) AM
86. Meeting in the Aisle (1997) AH
87. Electioneering (1997) OK
88. Dollars and Cents (2001) AM, MW
89. Vegetable (1993) PH, IT
90. Give Up the Ghost (2011) KL

91. Down Is the New Up (2007) IR2
92. These Are My Twisted Words (single, 2009)
93. Four Minute Warning (2007) IR2
94. How I Made My Millions (B-side of “No Surprises,” 1998)
95. The Trickster (1994) IL
96. Permanent Daylight (1994) IL
97. Worrywort (B-side of “Knives Out,” 2001)
98. In Limbo (2000) KA
99. We Suck Young Blood (2003) HT
100. Bullet Proof…I Wish I Was (1995) TB


Albums and EPs



PH Pablo Honey (1993): 8 songs
IT Itch (EP, 1994): 5 songs
IL My Iron Lung (EP, 1994): 3 songs
TB The Bends (1995): 11 songs
OK OK Computer (1997): 11 songs
AH Airbag/How Am I Driving? (EP, 1998): 6 songs
KA Kid A (2000): 9 songs
AM Amnesiac (2001): 8 songs
MW I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (live, 2001): 8 songs
HT Hail to the Thief (2003): 11 songs
CL Com Lag (EP, 2004): 6 songs
IR In Rainbows (2007): 8 songs
IR2 In Rainbows: Disk 2 (2007): 3 songs
B1 The Best of (compilation, 2008): 17 songs
B2 The Best of: Special Edition (compilation, 2008): 13 songs
KL King of Limbs (2011): 6 songs
MP A Moon Shaped Pool (2016): 3 songs


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First posted 5/24/2022; last updated 6/2/2022.

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